Check out the new ad from Gatorade featuring teens star, Serena Williams. She is shown cuddling a baby, telling the child that it’s okay if she “never picks up a racquet”, and that when it comes to the game of life, that her daughter would “keep playing, no matter what.”

Note:Although she was supposed to appear in the ad, the baby Serena is cradling in the commercial is not her daughter Alexis Olympia, who had gotten sick prior to the shoot. She was filled in with a baby body double.

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Valerie Robinson is an award-winning writer and photographer. Based in the Washington, DC area, this HBCU alumni is a wife and mother of three who strives and encourages others to be the best versions of themselves.